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From: "Ricardo M. Correia" <Ricardo.M.Correia@Sun.COM>
To: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	heukelum@fastmail.fm
Subject: Re: [3/3] Use __fls for fls64 on 64-bit archs
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:56:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215276997.7167.12.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080315173236.GC21659@mailshack.com>

(Sorry, sending this again as I screwed up the previous mail).

Hi,

I have a question about fls64() which I hope you or someone else could
clarify, please see below.

On Sáb, 2008-03-15 at 18:32 +0100, Alexander van Heukelum wrote: 
> +#elif BITS_PER_LONG == 64
> +static inline int fls64(__u64 x)
> +{
> +	if (x == 0)
> +		return 0;
> +	return __fls(x) + 1;
> +}

It seems fls64() is implemented on top of __fls(), however the __fls()
implementation on the x86-64 architecture states that the result is
undefined if the argument does not have any zero bits.
So if I understand correctly, the statement "fls64(~0ULL)" would return
an undefined result on x64-64 instead of 64 as one would expect.

Wouldn't it make sense to check for ~0ULL in fls64()?

Thanks,
Ricardo



  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-05 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-15 17:29 [0/3] Improve generic fls64 for 64-bit machines Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-15 17:30 ` [1/3] Introduce a generic __fls implementation Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-15 17:31 ` [2/3] Implement __fls on all 64-bit archs Alexander van Heukelum
2008-03-15 17:32 ` [3/3] Use __fls for fls64 on " Alexander van Heukelum
2008-07-05 16:56   ` Ricardo M. Correia [this message]
2008-07-05 17:53     ` [PATCH] x86: fix description of __fls(): __fls(0) is undefined Alexander van Heukelum
2008-07-18 12:33       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-21 13:10 ` [0/3] Improve generic fls64 for 64-bit machines Ingo Molnar
2008-04-03 17:19 ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-04 14:22   ` Alexander van Heukelum
2008-04-06 15:03     ` Benny Halevy
2008-04-06 19:10       ` Alexander van Heukelum

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